| MOM | Honoree on a day in May, for short |
| POE | Honoree on a 2009 bicentennial stamp |
| MOTHERHOOD | It's celebrated on a day in May |
| WHIT | Why nuts aid circulation on a day in May (4,6) |
| SUNDAY | Why nuts aid circulation on a day in May (4,6) |
| INDY | ___ 500 (annual motorsport event in May for short) |
| AAPI | Heritage group honored in May, for short |
| MIDSUMMER | Sid mistakenly taken in by masquerader on a day in June (9) |
| OAKAPPLE | A day in May and, for Charles II, how galling! (3-5) |
| GUNPOWDERPLOT | What we remember on a day in November (9,4) |
| MOMS | Honorees of a day in May |
| MOMMAS | Those with a day in May, informally |
| INDEPENDENCE | Indecent books withdrawn (including most of Thackeray's) on a day in July (12) |
| ULYSSES | Book that tells of Leopold Bloom's peregrinations around Dublin on a day in 1904 |
| PALMSUNDAY | Mandy with pals you, say, included travelling on a day in Lent (4,6) |
| MOTHERS | A celebration on the second Sunday in May for Australia and the US, but in March for the English, ... Day became popular from 1908 (6'1) |
| BRAVE | Face that a woman usually has on a certain day in May? |
| PUMA | For all to see in May for example, a wild animal (4) |
| STEADMAN | Alison ___, actress who played Beverley in Abigail's Party and Candice Marie in Nuts in May for husband Mike Leigh |
| MEMORIAL | ____ Day, U.S. public holiday on the last Monday in May for honouring military personnel (8) |
